Jason Evans

There are a lot of guys that you could go for.

So I considered Caden.

I also strongly considered Malik Brown, who had seven steals, 14 rebounds, and 18 points on the week, which is pretty good from your backup big man.

But I picked someone I think pretty unlikely.

I went with Darren Harris.

And the reason is this, Darren Harris played his way into a significant role in the rotation this week.

He played 22 minutes against Lipscomb.

He played 15 minutes against Texas Tech.

They were very, very meaningful minutes.

They were minutes when the game was still in doubt in both cases.

I thought Darren had an outstanding week.

He scored 16 total points.

This is not a guy who is a high usage player.

You know, he knows his role is primarily just to shoot the open three.

But I thought the quality of play we saw from Darren, Darren was honestly slipping more and more out of the rotation.

Remember against Arkansas just a couple of weeks ago, he only played two minutes.

He only played four minutes against Michigan State.

For him to get 15 minutes against Texas Tech, you know, again, a comparable quality team.

It shows you how much Darren improved his play over that exam break.

22 minutes against Lipscomb, 15 minutes against Texas Tech.